whole gamut. >> piers: going took your death ambassador bed scene, take you forward to the funeral. my story is much too sad to be told >> piers: the one thing but, morgan freeman, i have established over the last hour, is your story is not too sad to be told it has been a story of joyous chaos, triumph, occasional disaster, but above all, great fun. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> piers: been a pleasure. it has been a pleasure. good saturday morning. check your backyards. nasa says its dead satellite came crashing back to earth in pieces just hours ago. they just don't know exactly where it crashed. also, do you recognize this couple? well, somebody did and it pays to pay attention. because the fbi just paid out $2.1 million to the people who

recognized this fugitive couple that had been on the run for 16 years. also, women in one country figured out how to stop armed conflict in their country by withholding sex from their fighting husbands. from the cnn center in atlanta, georgia, this is your cnn saturday morning, 5:00 a.m. in fayetteville, 3:00 a.m. in seattle. if you're waking up this morning then you clearly were mott hit in the head by any falling space debris. congratulations. nasa's satellite came crashing down overnight and nasa doesn't know exactly where it crashed. it did says it re-entered the atmosphere somewhere over the pacific ocean. don't know where it is. if it landed in your yard, you think it's somewhere around, we'd love to hear about it.

let me show you the video of it coming down. this comes to us from our affiliate in san antonio, texas. you see that dot. yes, we've been building up for the past week to this satellite crashing to bring you a dot. that's supposedly a piece of the space debris there or it could be somebody playing with a flashlight in a tree in the distance. we didn't know where, from the u.s., hawaii, philippines, new zealand, everybody claims to have seen this come down. >> dots can be compelling. it is true. i was compelled and i'm compelled to show you video that might be more spectacular, this from the great state of hawaii. we have a smoky streak across the sky. could it be, might it be? we dust noepts he. we have no idea as to whether it is or not.

these do not have tracking devices on them. as they enter, we hope they're not going to hilt any populated area but say the best possibility for it to land, best option would be the pacific ocean and the reason why, it is the mostly like spot, it is the world's largest single geographical feature. if you were ever to get north america, south america, africa, say asia and cram it all together, all those land masses, every land mass could fit right in the pacific ocean, so that's probably the best spot it would land. we're expecting about or we expected about 26 pieces to survive making its way through the atmosphere. surviving parts made of titanium stainless steel and beryllium.

it would be scattered clusters but if you happen to be outside and have your camera and see something zipping across the sky, is that part of this space junk? well, the thing you have to remember is each year we get about 20,000 meteorites that strike the earth, most about the size of a grain of sand so the odds of whatever you're seeing in the sky being connected to this thing actually quite remote but you never know. if you happen to have great shots you were happen to snap overnight, please share them with the rest of the world. looks like we've escaped. flat to see you did make it to a work. >> they said the chances are remote. you can't help but duck a little bit. reynolds, thank you. he'll have the weather for us. four minutes past the hour. this satellite if it happens to

hit your house, falls in the backyard or you see a piece of it, you think it is a souvenir. nasa still owns the stuff and they want it back unless they say otherwise. it's actually against the law to sell it unless nasa gives you the go ahead to do so. all right. so space.com reports that the u.s. signed a pact that whoever sent it up has to pay for it when it comes down. if it does damage to your home nasa actually owes you some money. keep that in mind, as well. let's turn to some politics and a week from today, the government is going to run out of money if congress does not act. naturally, what did they do? took the weekend off but promised to get back to monday to avert a possible shutdown. it could come before the end of this month.

they're basically fighting over how much to set aside for disaster relief and the house approved a bill but that's not what democrats wanted. they didn't agree so when it went to the senate they voted to set it aside for the time being. >> that's the danger to this country is the $14 trillion deficit and the 1.6 trillion we add to it every damn year. >> wake up. wake up. you can't kill these programs. this is the solution you are killing. >> the senate majority leader says both sides need to cool off and maybe then they can come up with a compromise. he has scheduled a new vote for monday afternoon. but in florida this weekend seems to be the place to be for the republican presidential candida candidates. paul steinhauser has more on the

all-important race of 2012. >> good morning. everybody knows florida is a crucial battleground state but the state is becoming a major player in primary politics, as well. >> welcome to the florida state fairgrounds here in tampa. the site of the first ever tea party republican presidential debate. >> two weeks ago to another showdown to orlando to a cattle call of all the candidates yesterday, florida is front and center for the race and the fight between rick perry and the front-runner in the national poll and former massachusetts governor mitt romney who is second over social security, immigration and health care shows no signs of letting up. >> my friend, governor perry, said if you don't agree with his position on giving that in-state tuition to illegals that you don't have a heart. i think if you're opposed to illegal immigration it doesn't mean that you don't have a

heart, it means that you have a heart and a brain. >> the model for socialized medicine has already been tried, and it failed. not just in western europe, but in massachusetts. >> this afternoon we'll get the results of a straw poll in florida. it was opened to 3,500 delegates who will vote early. later perry and romney will speak at a gop conference in michigan, another state moving up its primary position in the race for the white house. results of the straw poll there, they come out tomorrow morning. t.j. >> thanks to our paul steinhauser and president obama has an important night, a speech to the congressional black caucus. the caucus has been critical of the white house for the way he has handled the issue of jobs, unemployment among african-americans was almost 17% last month. eight minutes past the hour. a passionate plea from the

palestinians for their own state. you see the president there requested it. it's a largely symbolling move since the united states said they would veto the move. a short time after abbas spoke, benjamin netanyahu had a chance to fire back. listen to both sides. >> translator: this is a moment of truth. our people are waiting to hear the answer of the world. will it allow israel to continue the last occupation in the world? >> the palestinians should first make peace with israel and then get their state. >> behind the scenes negotiators put together a rough time line for further peace talks between israeli and palestinian leaders. the security council expected to meet on monday. that's when the whole statehood issue could come up for a vote.

well, casey anthony, she has to come up with another $120,000 to reimburse florida investigators. found not guilty but was convicted of lying to investigators. anthony's attorneys admitted that casey knew her daughter was dead before the search started. she's now being charged a total of $217,000 for the search for her missing daughter, caylee. pope benedict holding mass and a bullet was fired nearby. it had nothing to do with the pope. the pope is spending a few days in his country and while there going to meet with several victims of clergy abuse. a statement says the pope was deeply shaken when he heard their stories. it was a rough -- not a rough week, just a bad week for stocks. the worst week in three years. dow dropped more than 700

points. s&p and the nasdaq took big losses as well and blamed on greece's problems and fears over a new global recession. the price of gold took a beating. now you know that's bad because friday's drop of more than $101 marked the first time in more than 30 years that the price of gold had fallen that much in one day. it's still $1,600 an ounce. here's good news. toys "r" us are hiring in a big way. the toy store chain is expected to add 40,000 jobs for the holiday season. they're hiring people to work in their stores and in distribution centers. last year, 10% of those temporary jobs became permanent positions after the holidays. well, 11 minutes past the hour. a story i want you to stick around for. women go on a sex strike, yes, women in one country are holding

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tropical depression 17. further development is possible as it moves along the zone but ophelia is closest to the u.s. in terms of what happened in the atlantic. with that system what we do anticipate, it may strengthen a bit, may get its act together and move toward the northwest. moving towards the northwest. but if you notice over the few hours there will be a little bit of fluctuation and strength dropping to 45 and back up to 60 thursday. the great news about this, we expect it to stay away from the u.s. mainland. there may be enhanced surf but still it's so far out, i don't think it will have any direct effect but still that time of year so we have to watch it carefully. this one, hurricane hillary. at this point, very well defined eye. very strong storm. major hurricane with winds 10 miles an hour. gusts up to 165. this powerhouse is expected to

remain out to sea perhaps bringing turf to the baja. travel delays can be expected along the eastern seaboard and the reason is pretty simple. heavy rainfall from the nation's capital southward into parts of florida and northeast basically the same deal, scattered showers in chicago we could see, and as we wrap things up, the warm conditions continue to texas where highs will rise going up to 94. high humidity will make it feel warmer, 78 in seattle. wrapping it up in boston, new york and d.c., highs in the 07s, 81 in atlanta. okay. t.j., you're up to speed. let's pitch it back to you. >> all right, thank you, kind sir. a quarter past the hour. i'll need your help in a moment. the internet search engine google is honoring the birthday of jim henson with a google doodle. it lets you become a digital puppet master.

he was best known for bringing "sesame street" and the muppets to life. today would have been his 75th birthday but his memory living on. look at what google is doing today on the home page. you'll find this, six of his original characters. click the button undernine. if you click on the image itself, you can make it talk so their way of honoring henson. >> clearly we need more things like this because there is certainly enough interesting stuff on the internet. this has been needed for quite some time. more things to keep our mind off work when we're at work but seriously hats off to jim henson. how cool was it even though he has passed kids today, my own kids are digging that stuff he came up. >> it crosses generations. >> creative genius. >> and the next generation, as well. >> do you remember, reynolds, the big anniversary, this music?

♪ >> unbelievable. >> isn't it something? >> 20 years ago music changed in this country. 20 years since nirvana broke on the scene. their second album was the one that the country remembers "never mind" released 20 years ago today and brought grunge music to the masses. it started in seattle in the coffeehouses and on the radio and really went nationwide. remaining members celebrating with a special concert and a special re-release of the album "never mind." i was schooled by one of our writers that this was the second album but the one that got a lot of attention. >> great music that came out not

only in the grunge time but da great cluster of music, snoop dogg by others too. >> kind of relates to you. can you imagine someone putting you on trial, reynolds, because they don't think you accurately predicted the weather and then people, unfortunately had damage or were killed? this is going on in italy right now. scientists on trial accused of not accurately predicting an earthquake that killed 300 people. prosecutors say they should have known better but now there is the back story we'll give you and potential backlash if they are convicted. it's 18 past the hour. reynolds and i will be right back. [ male announcer ] a moment that starts off ordinary

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people accused of not accurately predicting an earthquake that killed all these folks, april of 2009 but they were part i government panel charged with assessing the risk of an earthquake. now scientists and this is where i'm going to have you weigh in around the world are concerned a bit because they're worried that people are trying to criminalize something as difficult as an earthquake prediction or a hurricane or this could have just implications down the road and a dangerous precedent could be set. six days before the magnitude 6.3 quake hit smaller tremors were felt around the area. the way the panel tried to explain them right before is the issue. listen to one journalist who has been following the case. >> a board, a committee made up of scientists and experts from the national volcanology met and

said it was just normal. plate tectonic activity in that area. there was a famous interview given that said everybody should go home, calm down and have a glass of wine. >> that's iowa i'll ask you about. earthquakes are different from hurricanes. it's almost impossible to predict a earthquake. people were worried and kind of downplayed. i know you err on the side of caution and are you scaring everybody. it's not going to be anything. you have to err on that side. is that different from a hurricane or tornadic activity. >> although meteorology is difficult, geology is almost impossible. you have these things especially when dealing with plate te tectoni

tectonics, you've followed trends. if you live in central california, you live in japan you have to know there's always going to be the possibility of an earthquake. same situation for that part of the mediterranean. over in parts of, say, italy, it's unusual to have earthquakes like this so i have to go to the side of the scientists when it comes to a thing like this. it's a human thing to want to assign blame. very, very typical for people to want to do that. with these guys, i don't know. my heart goes out to the people who lost their lives but any time you have a warning, you have to take it seriously and hope people will take the right steps. >> they are worried about the precedent it will set. they want $68 million in compensation for that trial for the scientists involved getting going again on october 1st. we'll talk to reynolds plenty throughout the morning. 23 minutes past the hour. stop the fighting or you get cut off. that is what women told their

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hour on this cnn saturday morning. i was telling you about this story in the last couple blocks of the show. women in one country withholding sex from their husbands to try to get them to stop an armed conflict. nadia billcheck here with this morning's passport. did it work. >> it worked. one of the rural areas in the philippines where a group of women actually got together sponsored by the u.n. to sew together in a co-op. the idea was less to collaborate but communicate then they decided to do something. they agreed to abstain from sex completely, both sides. let's hear from one of the women in the philippines and from the man she abstained from.

>> i fold them if you don't agree with my -- you cannot -- you have no salary from me. >> salary, is that what they call it? is that what the kids are calling it. >> it worked so well that the road has been re-opened and the women can sell their wares. >> how long did it take? >> this took a couple of weeks and it was the constant threat of if you don't there will be no payback. >> this isn't the first time. in ancient greece a play was written about women stopping the war between sparta and athens and that was centuries ago and colombia and around 200 of the wives and girlfriends of drug lords were so tired of the

murders they said we are embarking on the war of the kroft legs and the murder was was 26.5% then we move on to kenya in 2009, there was so much in-fighting that women once again including the prime minister's wife said we will abstain and they said what about the prostitutes and promised to pay them any loss in salary. >> if we needed further confirmation, women rule the world. >> that worked so well that earlier the belgiums spoke about using what happened in kenya to solve their conflict which has not been solved. moving on to liberia. "pray the devil back to hell" was about the role that women played, both muslim and christian women in ending the dictatorship of charles taylor, the dictator, so it's worked extremely well, t.j., maybe the

politics should take a look. maybe the spouses of our congress men and women should be thinking about such a thing. >> you heard the suggestion here first, folks. anything is possible. but women run the world once again. nadia bilchik with our'morning passport." bottom of the hour and good news, more good news for two of the hikers that were jailed in iran. has a little something to do with the kiss you're seeing right there. also, capitol hill is quiet today. almost wouldn't know there's only a week left until the government runs out of money. another government shutdown looming. that's next. it feels like help is never far away. it feels like you're protected against life's little mishaps.

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the sea pac conference but they're both in michigan this weekend for an event hosted by that state's republican party. meanwhile, the president is going to address the congressional black caucus tonight, invited to awards dinner at the annual legislative congress. the caucus has been critical of the white house for the way the president has handled the jobs issue with black unemployment in the country at 17% last month. meanwhile, we are facing the possibility of another government shutdown after the democrat-controlled senate rejected a stopgap spending measure. here now cnn's congressional correspondent kate boelduanbold. >> that's the danger is the $14 trillion deficit and the 1.6 trillion we add to it every damn year. >> wake up. wake up. you can't kill these programs.

this is the solution you are killing. >> reporter: congress leaves washington with no agreement on how to avoid another government shutdown. why the holdup as the september 30th deadline looms? neither side is backing down. top republicans and democrats continue pointing fingers at each other. >> harry reid is holding a bill up with full funding of what is needed right now for no reason. no reason but for politics. again, this is why the people just don't have the respect for this institution and this town anymore. >> i can't understand their logic. i mean do they want the government to shut down? do they want fema to close and fema will close. >> reporter: the house late thursday night narrowly passed a short-term spending bill that would keep the government funded through mid-november. the measure also includes what both sides say they care about most. urgently needed money for federal disaster relief in the wake of the recent floods, storms and wildfires. >> it is a reasonable,

responsible approach. >> reporter: but that plan was quickly rejected by the senate. the democratic majority strongly opposed to house gop demands, the disaster aid be paid for or offset by cutting money for clean energy projects including one linked to solyndra but democrats contend they are creating jobs. >> is it really fair that to fund disaster relief we take american jobs? >> reporte . >> reporter: norsenator reid ha compromised saying they'll provide less than senate democrats wanted but will not go along with the offsets in the house measure. the stalemate now forcing at least the senate to put off part of its scheduled recess next week. we'll see about the house. kate bolduan, cnn, capitol hill. 36 minutes past the hour.

some of the stories making headlines. a jury is in place in los angeles for the trial of conrad murray, the doctor accused of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of michael jackson. seven men, five women on the jury. none of them african-american. opening statements are set for tuesday. shane bauer and sarah showered are now formally engaged of a ceremony in oman. bauer and josh father tall were flown there after they were released for spying. father tall will be bauer's best man at that wedding and the fbi paid out $2.1 million to the people that gave them the tips that led to that man. we're talking about the fugitive boston gang leader whitey bulger caught with his female companion. they were caught. at least two people received the moin from the fbi but they're not saying who those two are. bulger fled an impending

racketeering indictment and caught with his companion in southern california believed to have a role in 19 murders. now, some of you may have been walking around all week with your eyes on the skies. nasa said fragments from a satellite would come raining down on earth. just they weren't sure where it was going to land. it all came crashing down but still we're not exactly sure where it landed. so that got us to thinking. what are your chances of getting hit by a piece of the satellite compared to getting struck by lightning or winning the mega millions lottery? we've got that answer for you after the break. we're cracking down on medicare fraud.

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struck by lightning or gwinning the mega millions jackpot. 1 in 175 million for winning the mega millions. 1 in 10,000 for getting struck by lightning. >> lightning hits the earth every single day. it seems like we have a lot of lotteries but not 100 lottery winners per second. >> i don't like those odds. the chance of getting hit by a piece of this satellite chunk is 1 in 3 ,200. parts re-entered atmosphere around 11 and 1 eastern time in that window of time so it came plummeting down but aren't sure where it came down.

so nothing specific about location, so by all means check your backyard, look around your neighborhood. they don't know where it is. we don't know where it is so it could be somewhere close to you and got reports of sightings, possible sightings like minnesota, texas. >> texas one of them. >> philippines, the netherlands so kind of all over the place here and we have video from san antonio overnight. look at that. >> that is breathtaking. when you see a speck that -- two specks that pop up on the screen like that. it says so much and in hawaii there was another shot. like a smoky kind of stream across the sky and that hawaii shot is quite spectacular, the thing, though, t.j., it is impossible to say is this something that directly comes from this satellite. it's impossible to say so. there's a point to the story. ed white was the very first astronaut to go on a space walk for the united states. when he left his capsule to go

out as the door opened and he stepped out there was one extra glove, a thermal glove that was on a seat that went outside of the spaceship and went into its own orbit around the planet. there is a lot of stuff that's flying around the planet and a lot of it will eventually make its way from orbit back to earth. that being said, yeah, someone might be working through tennessee and get smacked with leftovers of ed white's glove. >> this isn't the only thing we should be worried about. >> there is a lot of stuff out there and can't guarantee every single meteorite you see happens to be a directly connected thing. >> we'll stay on the science front for a second. "star trek" guy. >> more of a "star wars" guy. >> the warp drive, scientists may have figured out it's not

just science fiction. but fired up a subatomic particle in a super collider and made it go faster than the speed of light. now, before this it was believed that nothing could go faster than the speed of light except maybe the starship "enterprise" so this could throw einstein's theory of relativity out the window and opens up the possibility here of time travel. not any time soon, might have just blown our mind with that. probably took it too far. >> unbelievable. >> that is what we're talking about now. >> pretty amazing stuff. >> quarter to the top of the hour. we will turn from science and "star trek" and space to mahmoud abbas and the history that we saw play out at the u.n. this week. he was making his case, the palestinian president, his case and signing the paperwork for an independent nation of palestine but it could be more show than substance. we will explain why.

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a quarter of the top of the hour now and history at the u.n. mahmoud abbas formally admitting the world to accept palestine into its ranks. here's now senior united nations correspondent richard roth. >> reporter: like two heavyweight boxers, the palestinian and israeli leaders took their best shots at each other inside the general assembly hall. mahmoud abbas entered to thunderous ovation making his case for tatehood while

brandishing his formal applation to the security council. abbas denounced israeli occupation and settlement activity while asking the 193 countries for acceptance in their ranks. >> translator: i declare that the plo is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activity. >> reporter: netanyahu didn't fare as well on the applause meter. having served israel here as its ambassador, he made an impassioned plea for israel to defend itself. he said it was fine if the palestinians wanted a state but not created through the united nations. >> i cannot risk the future of the jewish state on wishful thinking. leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be. we must do our best to shape the future, but we cannot wish away

the dangers of the present. >> reporter: peace negotiators for the middle east quickly met after the speeches and pressed both sides to return to dialogue while making concrete proposals and commitments. the security council meets monday afternoon, new york time, to quickly consider the palestinian bid, though no votes are expected. t.j.? >> all right, thanks as always to our richard roth as we get to 12 minutes off the top of the hour. stick around. because one of the all-time classics on television has now said good-bye. pine valley is no more. the latest soap opera to go off the air after 41 years, that's next.

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♪ never can say good-bye ♪ no no no ♪ never can say >> good morning, los angeles. los angeles, we have to say good-bye this morning. might not take me for a soap opera guy -- i'm not but i know this is a big deal. the end of an era in daytime television. we are talking about soap operas and one of the most popular and one of the oldest has now signed off. kareen wynter takes a look at the end for "all my children."

>> reporter: t.j., this is a show that's been around for four decades, "all my children." that's a really long time. but it's not alone here. in fact, there's so many soap tass are getting washed up in this new era of entertainment. it's the latest soap opera squeezed out of daytime. >> it's over. there's nothing left. >> reporter: abc's long-running drama "all my children" which made america's favorite soap icon susan lucci a household name. >> i'm here to fight for us. >> reporter: and launched the stars of kelly ripa. my first job. >> fresh off the bus. i feel so devastated. >> reporter: and sarah michelle geller who was stunned by the decision to cancel it due to poor ratings. >> it seems so wong to me. >> reporter: imagine after a 40-year run. >> these are successful shows to produce. >> reporter: soap opera digest says it was the number one soap

back in the 1970s when it debuted and stayed on top for a decade thanks to strong story lines. >> the show had the first abortion, protested the vietnam war and dealt with aids and homosexuality. >> reporter: in the 1990s sloan says the popular drama began rating. network execs were forced to slash salaries and in 2010 he relocate from new york here to l.a. but it wasn't enough to save the soap. >> the ear raf the bored housewife is over and soap operas catered to that stereotypical 1950s woman sitting at home. >> reporter: danny shay says the cancellation of "guiding light," "one life to live" and "all my children" is a result of demographics changing not to mention the emergence of reality tv. >> who cares about erica kane

when you have the real housewives battling it out. >> they offer an inexpensive replaceme replacement. >> reporter: it's not just reality shows but talk shows like "the chew" filling the daytime landscape. fresh new programming networks hope viewers will sink their teeth into. starting next week "the chew," a food and lifestyle show takes over "all my children"'s time slot. closing a chapter on one of television's longest running and most beloved daytime staples. so, t.j., while you won't be able to turn on the tube to see "all my children," the drama, it's not entirely dead. a production company is bringing it back to life, yes, in an online format but so many die-hard soap fans out there fear the show just won't be the same. t.j.? >> okay. that's a relief. at least i can see it online.

now, one face, a very familiar face from "all my children" that you didn't see in her report, you will see here a little later. tad martin, women love this guy. they've been loving him for the past 30 years on this soap opera. well, he is going to be here with me in the 10:00 eastern hour. his name is michael e. knight, the character who played man or character tad martin will be here and what his future could possibly be now. you'll want to stick around for that. as we get close to the top of the hour, we want to know do you know where the term soap opera came from? i did. i'll answer that question for you after the break. you can't change the way banking works. just accept it, man. free ? doesn't close at five ? try nature. it's a bank. what do you want, a hug ? just accept it. hidden fees, fine print, or they'll stick it to you some other way. stay with the herd, son. accept it. just accept it. accept it. just accept it. accept it. if we miss this movie, you're dead.

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as we get close to the top of the hour, we asked do you know where the term soap opera came from? well, check this out. when the daytime shows first started airing in the '30s they were partially paid for by procter & gamble's soap powder. they soon became phone as soap operas. interesting tidbit. also some stories making news right now across the country. check this out. try it again. >> yeah, close encounter for swimmer diana nyad. her third attempt to swim from florida to cuba. she tangled with jellyfish, stung on her arm, body and face. she resumed 100 plus mile swim that could put her in florida sometime on monday. bake sale at the university of california at berkeley. it's causing a bit of a stir. campus republicans plan to sell

cookies and brownies priced according to race, gender and ethnicity. they say it's meant to mock efforts by student government to drum up support for a bill to consider student ethnicity in admissions. the way it will work, the priced of a baked cookie costs $2 for white people, $1.50 if you're asian. $1 for latinos, 7 acents 5 cent you're african-american and 25 cents if you're native american. women get a 25-cent discount. >> it's to make you feel how it would work. >> the fact that they humorized and mocked the struggles of people's color on the campus is very disgusting to me. >> well, despite the criticism, the young republicans say they

plan to go ahead with that bake sale coming up on tuesday. well, let's start this next hour, shall we, of cnn saturday morning. i need all of you to look at your windows and check the backyard. you might have some space junk back there. nasa says its satellite came crashing back to earth but still not exactly sure where it came crashing down. also this morning, another story you will not believe. ben & jerry's has come out with a new ice cream flavor. we're showing it to you but i'm trying to refrain from saying the tame to you. it has a lot of people talking. you'll be talking about it this morning, as well. and on capitol hill, live, gorgeous picture of the nation's capital. nobody is working there right now, however, that is not necessarily unusual but this weekend is different because a week from today the government is going to run out of money if

congress doesn't act. we'll tell you about the latest impasse. from the cnn center in atlanta, georgia, this is your cnn saturday morning, 6:00 a.m. in memphis. 4:00 in santa monica. if you are with me this morning, congratulations you were not clocked in the head last night by a piece of falling space debris. nasa's uars satellite did come crashing down overnight as predicted. but also they couldn't predict exactly where it was going to land so we still don't know where the stuff is. they say it re-entered the atmosphere over the pacific ocean but that's pretty much all we got right now so when i said check your backyard, literally you can check your backyard. it might be there. here's some video from our affiliate in san antonio. we do have pictures of it coming down. look at -- yeah, i know. it's not that dramatic, it's a dot in the sky but have several reports around the country and the world people have pictures of what they think is this space junk falling down but this could

be that space junk. this could be somebody playing with the flashlight in the distance. reynolds, this is tricky. this is science but it's not an exact science in trying to figure out where this stuff is going to come down and narrowed it down. for the past several days said, yes, it's going to come down somewhere on earth. absolutely. one thing to consider -- >> when they're re-entering the atmosphere it's not a serene, quiet process. it's violent, you have to remember the space shuttle or any spacecraft we have as it re-enters the earth's atmosphere it will handle the forces -- as you re-enter, a lot of heat and friction is generated. always, again, just incredible warm-up of temperature on whatever thing comes through the atmosphere. there are 26 pieces that were expected to survive. one of the reasons why? some of the stuff it's made out

of, also the total impacting mass altogether is expected to be around 1,173 pounds. the original mass just over 12,000 so you see a lot of it will break up. as it comes down the heaviest to be around 350 pound, nine pieces are expected to range anywhere from 55 to 130 pounds. 16 pieces less than 12 pounds. now, where is it going to land? again, it's anyone's guess. they say it will re-enter over parts of the pacific ocean. it's the planet's largest geographical feature. in fact, so big if you were to get all the land masses on the planet together you would still be able to fit all of them in the space that make up the pacific ocean and have lots of room left over so interesting to see what happens. there was video out of hawaii. t.j. showed you a speck before and here you see almost a

contrail of a jet or anything. and whatever kind of video we get it's going to be almost impossible to say for sure whether or not this is part of the debris from the satellite. i will say it's impossible to tell unless somebody makes its way on land and someone is able to recover that and send it to nasa and nasa is able to determine whether or not it's part of the original space junk but still looks like for now, t.j., most of us escaped being as you said clocked in the noggin with the space debris. >> thank you. we'll check in with reynolds plenty throughout the morning. if a piece of satellite hit your house or damage your property, you need to give nasa a call because they actually still own it. it's not some souvenir you can keep and they may want it back. it's actually against the law to sell it unless they give you the go-ahead. also, if something happened just another piece of information there, if it happened to damage your home or property, nasa could owe you some money.

as spatedot.cce.com reports, th to pay for it. a week from today, the government will run out of money. if congress doesn't act, so this weekend, they're taking the weekend off. shutdown could come if to spending deal is reached by the end of the month. congress at an impasse fighting over how much to set aside for disaster relief. the republican controlled house approved a bill but democrats weren't so sold on it. when they got over to the democratically controlled senate, they voted to set the bill aside for the time being. >> that's the danger to this country. it's the $14 trillion deficit and the 1.6 trillion we add to it every damn year. >> wake up. wake up. you can't kill these programs. this is the solution you are killing.

>> so senate majority leader harry reid says both sides need time to cool off. that's why they're taking this week to thing on things and maybe they can come up with a compromise next week scheduling a new vote for monday afternoon nfrjts florida, that is the spot to be this weekend if you're republican presidential candidate. paul steinensteinenpauhauser ha. >> reporter: good morning. everybody knows florida is a crucial battleground state but the state is becoming a major player in primary politics, as well. >> welcome to the florida state fairgrounds here in tampa. the site of the first ever tea party republican presidential debate. >> reporter: from that two weeks ago to another showdown to orlando to a cattle call of all the candidates yesterday, florida is front and center right now in the race for the gop nomination and the fight between rick perry and the front-runner in the national poll and former massachusetts

governor mitt romney who is second in the survey over social security, immigration and health care it shows no signs of letting up. >> my friend, governor perry, said that if you don't agree with his position on giving that in-state tuition to illegals that you don't have a heart. i think if you're opposed to illegal immigration, it doesn't mean that you don't have a heart, it means that you have a heart and a brain. >> the model for socialized medicine has already been tried, and it failed, not just in western europe, but in massachusetts. >> this afternoon we'll get the results of a straw poll in florida. the contest opened to some 3500 republican delegates from a state that will most likely vote early in the caucus calendar. later today, perry and romney will speak at a gop conference in michigan, another state moving up its primary position in the race for the white house. results of the straw poll there,

well, they come out tomorrow morning. t.j.? >> all right, thanks to our paul steinhauser. and president obama has an important night, a speech to the congressional black caucus. the caucus has been critical of the white house for the way he has handled the issue of jobs, unemployment among african-americans was almost 17% last month. a passionate plea from the palestinians for their own state. the president there requested it. he had a speech before the general assembly. largely a symbolic move since the united states said it would veto the move. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had a chance to fire back. listen to both sides. you see the president there requested it. our people >> translator: this is a moment of truth. our people are waiting to hear the answer of the world. will it allow israel to continue the last occupation in the

world? >> the palestinians should first make peace with israel and then get their state. >> behind the scenes negotiators put together a rough time line for further peace talks between israeli and palestinian leaders. the security council expected to meet on monday. that's when the whole statehood issue could come up for a vote. an update on the story we were following you. shots fired in germany. this wasn't too far from where the pope was holding a mass. this was several hundred yards away, we're told. and officials there are saying the 145 the shoot something not related to his appearance. no one shot at the pope. the mass was part of the pope's four-day trip to him home country. bad week for stocks. the worst week in three years. the dow mored than 700 points. the s&p and the nasdaq also took some pretty big losses. it can be blamed on greece's financial problems and fears

over a possible new global recession. meanwhile, toys "r" us is hiring in a big way this season. expected to add about 40,000 jobs for the holiday season. they're hiring people to work in their stores and in their distribution centers. last year 10% of those temporary jobs became permanent positions after the holidays. well, at 11 minutes past the hour. stick around for a story you quite frankly will not believe. ben & jerry's, yes, the ice cream makers have just come up with what some are calling the world's first r-rated ice cream. it doesn't matter what it tastes like. some still are saying it is in extremely poor taste. looking at the ice cream but i'm going to hold off on saying the name of it until we get back. ." what if we designed an electric motorcycle? what if we turned trash into surfboards? whatever your what if is, the new sprint biz 360 has custom solutions to make it happen,

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degrees. pardonly cloudy skies. morgantown, west virginia, which is an insane place to play. number two team playing west virginia. mostly cloudy skies. then we've got -- take a look at this. where the earth stops moving. number 14, arkansas, razorbacks against the crimson tide of "les miserables." 3:30 kickoff. i know exactly what t.j. will be doing at 3:30 and again all these games will be phenomenal and of course missouri and oklahoma. we've already chatted about that. should be a great day for football. let's pitch it back to you. interesting things to talk about. you may be munching. >> this is odd. ice cream is supposed to be innocent. kids eat ice cream but b ben & jerry's is catching heat and they've done it before with controversial names of their ice creams. maybe they do it for attention. i don't know but a group of

mothers now saying this is just in bad taste. all right. we're showing it to you there on the screen but the name of this flavor is call ed schweddy ball. now, a lot of you recognize that because it's a very popular "saturday night live" skit. you're seeing it there. the last name is schweddy. now, you don't necessarily want your kids ordering this from the grocery store or restaurant. you just don't want that to happen. to give you a reminder here, about the is the snl skit, frankly one of my favorites of all time. >> well, there's no beating my balls. made from a secret schweddy recipe. no one can resist my schweddy balls. >> okay. the skit was hilarious. that's alec baldwin. he plays pete schweddy and goes

on this radio show and is talking about his restaurant and where he has these baked goods and these holiday baked goods and they use his name and you put balls after it and there you go. you see where this is going. but now women who called themselves 1 million moms say ben & jerry has turned something as simple as ice cream into something repulsive. it's hard to argue with that point. the skit was hilarious but -- that's a tough one. >> repulsive but repulsively delicious. vanilla mixed in with some kind of a fudge. >> rum, it is rum flavor in there. that's not even the point. i'm sure it might be great ice cream but why do you have to attach that name to it. >> approaching the counter and having a straight face while -- >> you want a double scoop or single or triple. >> no, no, i mean this in an innocent way, i really do. >> this is why. we debated about you having a part of this story because we

knew that would happen. now -- >> purely innocent. >> ben & jerry's has in the past kama sutra flavor and hubby-hubby for gay marriage. let's take that off the screen and move on from this one. no response we have here yet from ben & jerry's. 19 minutes past the hour. i'm going to try to get some sanity back. how to lower your monthly bills. you know you want to but some simple things you can do. stay with me. not white collar or blue collar or no collars. we are business in america. and every day we awake to the same challenges. but at prudential we're helping companies everywhere find new solutions to manage risk, capital and employee benefits, so american business can get on with business.

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all right. 22 past the hour and a lot of folks are cringing after the week that the market has. closing bell on friday. it marked the end of a miserable week for people, investors in particular, the worst week for the dow in three years plunged more than 700 points. sharpest weekly drop since october 2008. stocks managed some small gains but investors still skittish over the global economy. the u.s. census bureau says the amount of money most people make have decreased but our financial analyst says the cost of living goes up. looking for a way to cut. there are simple things we can be doing to save us money. let's start with the mortgage. we're still talking these all-time lows. >> and everybody doesn't have that low rate. you know, still an opportunity to refinance and talking about these all-time lows annually talking about maybe 4.3 in a lot of places. some places even lower. that's the average so this is a great opportunity for people who can refinance to refinance. >> there it is.

a lot of people looking at you going, wait a minute now. i'm upside down. how am i supposed to finance. >> that's the catch-22. now some areas haven't experienced the type of depreciation so you got areas around the country that you're still able to refinance but a lot have been hit with depreciation and can't. in that type of situation where you owe pore on the house than it's worth you won't be in a situation to refinance. >> another way you could find to save money. we don't think about this enough, we pay our phone bill. >> paying the phone bill and don't think about it. some of us have been with the same carrier for years. we are the consumer. we've got value. a lot of people are competing for our business. so this is an opportunity to talk to them and say what other packages do you have? how can i lower my bill. if you can't, i've got somebody over here that we can. >> we shouldn't bundle. >> do not bundle anymore. once that contract is over, don't go automatically go into a contract. try to do a no contract. with those bundle services,

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